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Sonia Yun Liu is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on Animal Science and Zoology, which forms the core subfield of their work. Other subfields include Plant Science, Aquatic Science, Ecology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main areas of research cover topics related to Animal Nutrition and Physiology, with a significant emphasis on livestock and poultry management. Additional topics they have worked on include rabbits' nutrition, reproduction, and health, aquaculture nutrition and growth, meat and animal product quality, Moringa oleifera research and applications, and issues related to agricultural sustainability and environmental impact.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Sonia Yun Liu are:

  • Synthetic and Crystalline Amino Acids: Alternatives to Soybean Meal in Chicken-Meat Production (2020) published in Animals
  • Progress towards reduced-crude protein diets for broiler chickens and sustainable chicken-meat production (2021) published in Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology
  • Amino acid requirements for laying hens: a comprehensive review (2021) published in Poultry Science
  • Reduced-crude protein diets in chicken-meat production: justification for an imperative (2020) published in World's Poultry Science Journal
  • Facilitating the acceptance of tangibly reduced-crude protein diets for chicken-meat production (2020) published in Animal Nutrition

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Sonia Yun Liu include:

  • Peter H. Selle
  • Shemil P. Macelline
  • Peter V. Chrystal
  • Mehdi Toghyani
  • Shiva Greenhalgh

Publications by Sonia Yun Liu are often published in the following venues:

  • Animal Nutrition
  • Poultry Science
  • Animal Feed Science and Technology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Animals

Best Publications

  • Effects of reduced crude protein levels, dietary electrolyte balance, and energy density on the performance of broiler chickens offered maize-based diets with evaluations of starch, protein, and amino acid metabolism

    Peter V. Chrystal;Amy F. Moss;Ali Khoddami;Victor D. Naranjo

  • Strategies to enhance the performance of pigs and poultry on sorghum-based diets

    Sonia Y. Liu;Peter H. Selle;Aaron J. Cowieson

  • Impacts of reduced-crude protein diets on key parameters in male broiler chickens offered maize-based diets.

    Peter V. Chrystal;Amy F. Moss;Ali Khoddami;Victor D Naranjo

  • Steam-pelleting temperatures, grain variety, feed form and protease supplementation of mediumly ground, sorghum-based broiler diets: influences on growth performance, relative gizzard weights, nutrient utilisation, starch and nitrogen digestibility

    P. H. Selle;S. Y. Liu;J. Cai;A. J. Cowieson

  • A consideration of starch and protein digestive dynamics in chicken-meat production

    S.Y. Liu;P.H. Selle

  • Synthetic and Crystalline Amino Acids: Alternatives to Soybean Meal in Chicken-Meat Production.

    Peter H. Selle;Juliano Cesar de Paula Dorigam;Andreas Lemme;Peter V. Chrystal

  • Effects of phytase supplementation on growth performance, nutrient utilization and digestive dynamics of starch and protein in broiler chickens offered maize-, sorghum- and wheat-based diets

    S.Y. Liu;D.J. Cadogan;A. Péron;H.H. Truong

  • Progress towards reduced-crude protein diets for broiler chickens and sustainable chicken-meat production.

    Sonia Yun Liu;Shemil P. Macelline;Peter V. Chrystal;Peter H. Selle

  • Amino acid requirements for laying hens: a comprehensive review.

    Shemil P. Macelline;Mehdi Toghyani;Peter V. Chrystal;Peter H. Selle

  • Reduced-crude protein diets in chicken-meat production: justification for an imperative

    S. Greenhalgh;P. V. Chrystal;P. H. Selle;S. Y. Liu

  • Protease supplementation of sorghum-based broiler diets enhances amino acid digestibility coefficients in four small intestinal sites and accelerates their rates of digestion

    S.Y. Liu;P.H. Selle;S.G. Court;A.J. Cowieson

  • Concentrations of specific phenolic compounds in six red sorghums influence nutrient utilisation in broiler chickens

    Ali Khoddami;Ha H. Truong;Ha H. Truong;Sonia Yun Liu;Thomas H. Roberts

  • Dietary starch influences growth performance, nutrient utilisation and digestive dynamics of protein and amino acids in broiler chickens offered low-protein diets

    Amy F. Moss;Christine J. Sydenham;Ali Khoddami;Victor D. Naranjo

  • Standard phytase inclusion in maize-based broiler diets enhances digestibility coefficients of starch, amino acids and sodium in four small intestinal segments and digestive dynamics of starch and protein

    Ha H. Truong;Ha H. Truong;Rachael M. Bold;Sonia Y. Liu;Peter H. Selle

  • Facilitating the acceptance of tangibly reduced-crude protein diets for chicken-meat production.

    Peter V. Chrystal;Shiva Greenhalgh;Peter H. Selle;Sonia Yun Liu

  • Capping dietary starch:protein ratios in moderately reduced crude protein, wheat-based diets showed promise but further reductions generated inferior growth performance in broiler chickens

    Shiva Greenhalgh;Bernard V. McInerney;Leon R. McQuade;Peter V. Chrystal

  • Maize-based diets are more conducive to crude protein reductions than wheat-based diets for broiler chickens

    Peter V. Chrystal;Shiva Greenhalgh;Bernard V. McInerney;Leon R. McQuade

  • The Contribution of Phytate-Degrading Enzymes to Chicken-Meat Production

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  • Whole-grain feeding for chicken-meat production: possible mechanisms driving enhanced energy utilisation and feed conversion

    Sonia Yun Liu;Ha H. Truong;Peter H. Selle

  • Starch and protein digestive dynamics in low-protein diets supplemented with crystalline amino acids

    S. Y. Liu;P. H. Selle

  • Steam-pelleting and feed form of broiler diets based on three coarsely ground sorghums influences growth performance,nutrient utilisation, starch and nitrogen digestibility

    P. H. Selle;S. Y. Liu;J. Cai;A. J. Cowieson

  • Phytase supplementation of maize-, sorghum- and wheat-based broiler diets with identified starch pasting properties influences phytate (IP6) and sodium jejunal and ileal digestibility

    H.H. Truong;H.H. Truong;S. Yu;A. Peron;D.J. Cadogan

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Selle
Peter H. Selle University of Sydney
Aaron J. Cowieson
Aaron J. Cowieson DSM (Netherlands)
Robert J. Hughes
Robert J. Hughes University of Adelaide
David Raubenheimer
David Raubenheimer University of Sydney
Stephen J. Simpson
Stephen J. Simpson University of Sydney
Ian D. Godwin
Ian D. Godwin University of Queensland
Robert D. Goodband
Robert D. Goodband Kansas State University
Johan Buyse
Johan Buyse KU Leuven
Peter C. Thomson
Peter C. Thomson University of Sydney
R. M. Gous
R. M. Gous University of KwaZulu-Natal

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